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CHARLES F. KETTERING AND WILLIAM A. CHRYST, 0F DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNORSTO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OFOHIO, (INCORPORATED IN 1906.)

CASH-REGISTER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES F. KETTER- ING and YILLIAM A. CIIRYST,citizens of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county ofMontgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cash-Registers, of which we declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to cash registers and has more particularrelation to cash registers of the type shown and described in priorapplications filed by Charles F. Ket tering and Villiam A. Chryst,Serial No. 151,146, on September 21, 1908 and Serial No. 477,419, filedFebruary 11, 1909, to which reference may be had for a completedescription of such parts of the machine as do not relate directly tothe present invention.

Improved mechanism has been provided whereby the operating mechanism isreleased by the operation of the clerks and transaction keys without theoperation of an additional releasing means.

The invention further provides special counters for the transaction keyswith improved mechanism for operating the same.

Another object is to provide an improved autographic attachment withmeans for compelling an operation of the same.

A further object is to provide manipulative means whereby the machinemay be adjusted to actuate the feeding mechanism for the autographicstrip at every operation of the machine, or simply when one of thetransaction keys has been depressed. The said manipulative means mayfurther be adjusted to entirely eliminate the feeding op eration.

Vith these and incidental objects in view, the invention consists incertain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, theessential elements of which are set forth in appended claims, and apreferred form of embodiment of which is hereinafter described withreference to the drawings which accompany and form part of thespecification.

Of said drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective View of the entire machinewith the cabinet partially broken away. Fig. 2 is a transverse verticalsection of the machine.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 4, 1909.

Patented May '7, 1912. Serial No. 493,807.

Fig. 2 is a detail of part of the differential mechanism shown in Fig.2. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail side elevation of part of the drawerreleasing mechanism. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of part of the drawerreleasing mechanism. Fig. 1 is an enlarged side elevation of the bank ofspecial keys, showing the construction of the special counters. Fig. 4is an enlarged detail of one of the special or transaction counters.Fig. 5 is a detail of the resetting key and mechanism operating inconnection With the same. Fig. 6 is a left side elevation of the machinewith the cabinet omitted, and showing the printing and autographicmechanisms. Fig. 6 is a detail view in side elevation of latchingmechanism shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail view of thespecial type carrier. Fig. 8 is an enlarged detail view of a devicewhich is also shown in Fig. 6.

The machine is of the drawer operated type, that is, the drivingmechanism is actuated by the opening and closing of the cash drawer. Thedrawer is normally spring pressed outward, but is held in its closedposition by a latch which is operated to release the drawer, upon thedepression of a combination of keys. The drawer then opens under thespring action and is returned by hand to its closed position. Upon thereturn movement of the drawer the record which is set up on the keyboardis recorded by the machine. For instance, if a cash sale is beingrecorded, the amount of the record will be added to the totalizer, willbe indicated and will be printed upon a detail strip. If a specialtransaction, such as no sale, received on account, charge, or paid out,is recorded, the totalizer will not be operated, but the record of thetransaction will be printed upon the detail strip and also indicated.All cash and special transactions which are recorded are counted bycounting devices,there being one of these de vices for each one of thespecial keys and one for the cash key. The machine is also pro vidcdwith an autographic device which is arranged to feed a strip of paperover the writing support, winding the same upon a receiving roll whichis located Within the casing of the machine. The autographic device isfor the purpose of receiving written notations regarding transactions,and the paper feeding mechanisms of the autographic device and of thedetail strip, operate to feed their respective strips uniform distancesupon each operation of the machine, thereby permitting the writtenrecords to be easily compared with the printed records to which theyrelate. The autographic device is arranged with a manipulative devicewhich is adapted to cooperate with other mechanisms in such a way as tocompel an operation of the manipulative device when any transaction isrecorded, or it may be set to compel the operation of the manipulativedevice only when a special transaction is recorded, or it may be set topermit the operation of the machine when any transaction is recorded,regardless of an operation of the manipulative device.

Referring to the drawings, Fig. 1 shows the general arrangement of themachine. The particular machine shown is provided with four banks ofvalue keys 1, one bank of transaction keys 2, and one bank of initialkeys 3, a plurality of transaction counters 4, a cash totalizer 5,amount indicators in two sets 6 and 7, one set 6 for indicating at thefront of the machine, and the other set 7 for indicating at the rear ofthe machine, an initial indicator 8 which is provided with two sets ofcharacters, one set for indicating at the front of the machine and theother set for indicating at the rear of the machine, and a transactionindicator 9 which is similarly provided with two sets of characters, aprinting device 10 and an autographic device 11. Power is applied to themachine by means of a pair of levers or drawer arms 12, which arepivoted on pins 3 at opposite sides of the machine to the side frames 14and 15. The normal position of the levers 12 with the drawer closed is,as shown in Fig. 1. The levers are each provided with a roller 16, whichbears against the rear wall of the cash drawer. As shown in Fig. 5, thedrawer is normally held in its closed position by the drawer lever latch17. Each arm 12 has pivoted thereto at 18 a link 19 (Fig. 2), whichconnects the drawer arm to an arm 20 which is fixed to a shaft 21. Thisshaft also carries an arm 22 (Fig. 6) which is connected by a link 23with an arm 24, which is pivoted to one of the frames of the machine at25. A spring 26 is interposed between a pin 27 on the arm 24 and a pinextending from the base plate of the machine and normally tends to drawthe rear end of said lever 24 downward. The drawer latch 17 is operatedto permit the opening of the cash drawer by the depression of an initialkey and one of the transaction keys, as will be hereinafter described.Vhen the drawer latch is operated to release the drawer, the spring 26will cause the arms 12 to rock forwardly, driving the cash drawer to itsopen position, the connection between the spring 26 and the arms 12, asbefore men tioned, being the arm 24, link 23, arm 22, shaft 21, arm 20and links 19. The shaft 21 carries a pair of slotted cams 29, whichcoact with rollers 30 on a pair of arms 31, pivoted on studs 35 on theside frames of the machine. These arms carry a rod 32 which extendsbetween the two arms 31 and beneath the shoulders 33 of segments 34which are concentrically but independently and loosely journaled onstuds, in line with studs 35, on frames 36, which are secured to theframes 15 and 385 of the machine by the tie bars 38 and 39, Figs 1 and2. Each of the segments 34 extends rearwardly of its pivot 35, asindicated at 40 (Fig. 2), and springs 41 are interposed between the pins42 of the rearward extensions 40 of the segments 34 and a rod 43, whichis mounted in the side frames 14 and 15. Therefore, these springsnormally tend to rock the segments 34 downwardly at their forward endsby drawing upwardly upon the rearward extensions 40 of the segments, butthe rod 32 must first be lowered to permit such movement of thesegments. The lowering of the rod 32 occurs upon the rocking of theshaft 21 in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2, when the cams 29through their co-action with the rollers 30 on the arms 31, which carrythe rod 32, cause said arms 31 to rock downwardly. The slots 44 in thecams 29 are concentric with the shaft 21 at 45. Therefore, the arms 31are held immovable in their lowest position during the latter part ofthe rocking of shaft 21, the purpose of which will hereinafter bedescribed. There is one segment 34 for each denomination of thetotalizer 5, and each of the segments 34 carries a segmental rack 46,which is adapted to mesh with a pinion 47 of the totalizer ofcorresponding denominational order. The four right hand segments arecontrolled by the banks of value keys. The extreme right hand segment iscontrolled by the fractions of pence bank 48. The segment 34 of nexthigher order is controlled by the pence bank 49, the next segment by theshillings bank 50, and the next segment by the tens of shillings bank51. There are two more segments 34 of higher order which are notcontrolled by value keys, but serve in carrying operations from thepinions of lower denominational order of the totalizer to the twopinions of higher denominational orders, namely, the pounds pinion andthe tens of pounds pinion.

The value keys 1 control their respective segment 34 as follows: Fig. 2illustrates one of the banks 50 or 51. The banks 48 and 49 are identicalto these banks in principle, but the bank 48 is provided with only threekeys and the bank 49 is provided with eleven keys, whereas the banks 50and 51 each have nine keys. The difference is that the banks 50 and 51control the rotation of corresponding pinions of the totalizer from oneto nine units of movement of a total of ten units to a rotation; thebank 48 one to three of a total of four, and the bank 49 one to elevenof a total of twelve. Each bank of keys is provided with a plate 52which is provided with a plurality of pins 53, one of which is locatedbeneath each key in posi tion to coact with a cam surface 54 at thelower side of the key, so that the depression of any key will cause theplate 52 to move downward. Each plate 52 is carried by a pair of arms 55and 56 which are pivoted respectively at 57 and 58 to the frames 36.Each of the slides 52 also carries a pin 59 which, when the slide movesdownward, engages the forward arm 60 of a bell crank 61, pivoted at 62,and rocks the bell crank against the action of a spring 63 to carry thelaterally extending arm 64 of the bell crank away from a shoulder 65 ofthe segment 34 and thereby permits the segment 34 to move downward uponthe lowering of rod 32. If no key is depressed, the bell crank 61 willremain in its normal position, thereby preventing downward movement ofthe segment 34 of such bank. The extent of downward movement of thesegment is determined by the particular key which is depressed, as theshank of the depressed key extends into the path of the shoulder 65 ofthe segment. Upon the full depression of any key, the pin 53 appropriateto such key will spring up back of the shoulder on said key formed byits cam surface 54, and thus hold it in its depressed position. If anerror has been made in the depression of a key, such error may becorrected by simply depressing the proper key. This depression of asecond key will cause a downward movement of plate 52 to a sufiicientextent to release the previously depressed key. The depressed keys arelocked in their depressed position during the operation of the machineby a detent 67 which is provided with a plurality of pins 68 which, whenthe detent is rocked upwardly, enter the notches 69 of the undepressedkeys and thereby prevent their depression. The pins 69 appro priate tothe depressed keys also enter the notches 70 of the keys which aredepressed and thereby prevent their release. The detent 67 is carried bya pair of arms 71 and 72 which are pivoted respectively at 57 and 58.The lower arms 72 are forked, as indicated at 73. A red 74 extendsbetween the prongs of the forks 73 and is carried by a pair of arms 75,which are fixed to the shaft 76. This shaft is rocked at the propertimes to move the detents upwardly and then return the same to theirinitial position by mechanism which is illustrated in Fig. 5, and whichwill be described in connection with the description of the banks ofinitial and special keys.

Vhen the rod 32 is in its lowest position, that is, while the roller 30is traveling in the concentric part 45 of the slot 44 in the cam 29,alining pawls 77 are rocked into engagement with the alining teeth 78 ofthe segments 34 and retain the segments in their set positions. Thealining pawls 77 are all fixed to a shaft 79 which carries an arm 80,which is connected by a link 81 to one arm of a bell crank lever 82,which is loosely pivoted at 83. The other arm of the bell crank lever 82is provided with a roller 84, which extends through the slot 85 in a cam86, which is fixed to the oscillating shaft 21. The cam slot 85 isconcentric with the shaft 21 for the greater part of its length, but isoffset slightly at 87 for the purpose of actuating the bell crank lever82, and thereby rocking the pawls 77 into engagement with the teeth 78when this part of the cam slot arrives at the roller 84. The cam slot 85is continued beyond such offset, said continuation also being concentricto the shaft 21, although on an arc of greater radius than the forwardpart of said slot. This serves to maintain the engagement of the pawls77 with the teeth 78. At the time the segments 34 are locked in theirset positions, the totalizer, which is carried on the rocking frame, isrocked into mesh with the segmental racks 46 which are carried by thesegments 34, and upon the return of the segments to their normalpositions, the totalizer pinions will be rotated to an extentcommensurate with the value of the key which has been depressed. Forinstance, if the uppermost or one key in a bank has been depressed. thetotalizer pinion appropriate thereto will be given one unit of rotation,whereas if a key of higher value has been depressed, for instance, thefive key, the totalizer pinion will be given five units of rotation.Each of the segmental racks 46 except the one of lowest order is capableof receiving an extra unit of movement under the influence of a springindependently of the movement of the segment This extra unit of movementof the segmental racks 46 is permitted only when a transfer is to beeffected from a pinion of lower order to a pinion of higher order. Thetotalizer and the transfer mechanisms are not illustrated in thedrawings, as they form no part of the present invention, but for acomplete description of these devices, reference may be made to thehereinbefore mentioned copending applications.

The indicators and type carriers are adjusted according to the extent ofdownward movement of the four right hand segments 34, at the time thesegments 34 are locked in their set positions. Each of these segments 34is provided with a beam 88 pivoted at 89 on said segment, which beamextends rearwardly and is pivotally connected at its rear end to thelower end of a link 91. The link 91 is pivoted at 92 to an arm 93, whichis fixed to one of a series of shafts 94. A link 95 extends upward fromthe pivot 92 and is pivoted at 97 to the segmental racks 96. Each of theshafts 94 extends through to the left hand side of the machine where itcarries an arm 98 (Fig. 0), which is con nected by a link 99 to a typecarrier 100 which is loosely pivoted at 101. The shaft 94 carriesanother arm similar to the arm 93, which connects the shaft 94 through alink similar to the link 95 to a segment gear similar to 90 which mesheswith a pinion rigid with one of the indicators 7, which is arranged tobe read at the rear of the machine. The mechanism just described is thatwhich connects one of the differential segments 34 with its respectivepair of indicators 6 and 7 and its respective type carrier 100. Theremaining banks are similarly connected to their respective indicatorsand type carriers. The indicators and type carriers are set as follows:\Vhen the four right hand segments 34 move downward the forward ends ofbeams 88 will be rocked downward from their pivots 90 until the segments34 are locked in their set positions, while their pivotal points 90 willremain stationary. V shaped cams 102, rigidly mounted on shaft 83, arethen rocked rearwardly to engage the rollers 103, mounted on beams 88,and cause the beams 88 to rock upward at their rear ends from theirpivots 89, exactly the same extents as they were previously rockeddownward at their forward ends from their pivots 90, while their pivotalpoints 89 remain stationary. A previous operation of the machinehowever, may have left the beams in other than zero positions in whichcase they would be rocked by cams 102 an extent corresponding to thedifference between the previous setting of the beam and its presentsetting. The result is that shafts 94 are dif ferentially rocked thedesired extents to rotate the indicators and type carriers directly fromtheir previous setting to the desired new setting. The alining pawls 104(Fig. 1), which co -act with the alining teeth 105 of the segmentalracks 90, serve to lock the segmental racks against movement while thebeams 88 are being rocked from their pivots 90. Then, when the segments34 are locked in their moved positions by the alining pawls 77, and thebeams are to be rocked from the pivots 89, the alining pawls 104 arerocked and held away from the teeth 105. thus permitting the beams 88 torock from their pivots 89. The shaft 83 also carries a pair of cams 106,which are suitably slotted for the purpose of co-acting with rollers107,

carried by arms 108 which are carried by the shaft 21 for the purpose ofcausing the cams 102 to be actuated at the proper time. The transactionkeys 2 and initial keys 3 control segments 34, but these particularsegments are not provided with segmental racks 40, and, therefore, donot effect an operation of the totalizer 5, but they are connected inthe same manner as the other segments to indicators and type segm'ents.

Transaction keys and transaction connters.--Fig. 4, is a side elevationof the bank of transaction keys and related mechanism. and illustrateshow the transaction counters are actuated. nism are omitted in this viewfor the sake of clearness, as the transaction keys are all similar inconstruction and control transaction counters which are all similar inconstruction. The lowest or Paid out key with its respective counter isshown in full, while the first from the lowest, or Charge key, is shownwith only part of the mechanism of its respective counter. The secondfrom the lowest key or the Received on ac- Certain parts of themechacount key, is shown alone or without its respective counter. TheCash key or the third from the lowest is shown in connection with adevice which prevents the depression of more than one key at a time inthe bank. The highest or No sale key is omitted. Each key is providedwith a lug 109, which, upon the depression of the key, engages a pin 110extending from the side of a pivoted arm 111, and rocks the arm 111against the action of a spring 112 carrying the pin 110 into one of thenotches 113 in a plate 114, which is carried by a pair of arms 115 and116 loosely pivoted at 117 and 118 respectively, and is common to all ofthe transaction keys. The plate 114 is provided with a rearwardlyextending arm 119 and at its rearward end said arm carries a pin 120which extends through a slot 121 in an arm 122 fixed to the shaft 79 onwhich the alining pawls 77 are mounted. Therefore, when the shaft 7 9 isrocked to carry the alining pawls 77 into engagement with the aliningteeth 78 of the segments 34, as previously described, the plate 114 willbe moved upwardly through the engagement of the arm 122 with the pin120. The arm 111 is pivotally mounted upon an arm 123 at 124. The arm123 is pivoted to the frame 125 of the bank of special keys at 126, andat 127 carries a roller which extends through a slot 128 in an extension129 of a frame 130, which carries at- 131 a multipronged pawl 132. Thepawl 132 is adapted to engage ratchets 133 which are fixed to thecounter wheels 134. \Vhen the plate 114 is moved upwardly it will carrywith it the arm 111 whose pin 110 has been moved into one of the notches113 in the plate and will thereby cause the arm 123 to be rockedupwardly from its pivot 126. This arm through its connection with theframe 130 will cause the frame 130 to rock downwardly from its pivot135, and the multipronged pawl will thereupon actuate its respectivecounter. The counter itself is of the well known step by step type, andneeds no further description here.

Fach transaction key carries a pin 137, which, when the key isdepressed, passes between a pair of arms 138 and 139 which are pivotedto the frame 125 at 140 and 141 respectively. The arms 138 and 139 ofdifferent pairs are connected together by links 142. Therefore, themovement of any one pair of arms will be communicated to the remainingpairs and these are arranged so that there will be only enough playbetween all of the arms to permit the passage of only one of the pins137 between its respective arms 138 and 139. Because of this arrangementit is impossible to depress more than one transaction key at a time.

The transaction keys and the clerks initial keys control the drawerreleasing mechanism. The drawer latch lever 17, as shown in Fig. 5, isconnected at its upper end by a link 143 to one of three arms 144 whichare pivoted at 145, also shown in Fig. 3. In order to permit the openingof the cash drawer under the action of the main spring 26, the drawerlatch lever 17 must be permitted to rock forward at its lower end fromits pivot 146, and in order to permit such rocking of the drawer latchlever, the link 1 43 must be allowed to move rearwardly. Said link isnormally prevented from moving rearwardly by the shoulders 147 of thearms 148, which are pivoted at 118 to the supporting frames for thebanks of initial and transaction keys. The shoulders 147 normally standin the path of the rod 149, which is carried by the arms 144 and, inorder to permit the arms 144 to rock rearwardly and thereby permittingthe cash drawer to move to its open position, the arms 148 must berocked downwardly from their pivots 118 to withdraw said shoulders fromthe path of the said rod 149. The arms 148 are pivoted to plates 150which, at their upper ends, are supported by arms 1515, which arepivoted to the supporting frames of the two banks at 117. The plates 150are provided with slots 151 located opposite pins 137, carried by thekeys. These slots extend upwardly from the path of movement of the pins137. Therefore, upon the depression of one of the keys, the plate 150for such bank will be moved downward through the engagement of the pin137 with the slot 151. The downward movement of the plate 150 causes thearms 148 to rock downwardly clear of the rod 149 thus permitting thelink 143 to move rearwardly and allowing the cash drawer to move to itsopen position. As there is one such mechanism as illustrated in Fig. 3for the bank of clerks initial keys, and one for the bank of specialtransaction keys, it is necessary to depress a key in each of thesebanks in order to operate the machine, the rod 149 and drawer latchmechanism being common to both banks. Each of the arms 148 (Fig. 3), isprovided with a spring drawn pawl 159 which is pivoted to the arm 148 at160. The spring 161 which actuates the pawl is interposed between a pin162 of the pawl and a pin 163 of the arm 148. \Vhen the arm 148 isrocked downward on the depression of a key, the pawl 159 springs belowthe rod 149 and prevents the return of the arm 148 and thereby thereturn of the slide 150. But when the arms 144 rock rearwardly, thesurface 164 of the arm 148 by co-acting with the rod 149, prevents thereturn of the arm 148 and the consequent release of the depressed key.The purpose of the pawl 159 is to insure that either the transaction orthe initial key which is first depressed will be retained in itsdepressed position until the other one of these keys is depressed, as itis necessary to depress both an initial key and a transaction key beforethe rod 149 will move rearwardly. When the drawer is pushed inward, therod 149 is again rocked forward toward normal position. It is essential,however, to push the drawer in past its normal position to cause the rod149 to move past its normal position to an extent suflicient to permitthe arm 148 and pawl 159 to spring up back of said rod 149, thusreleasing the depressed key. When the restoring pressure, is thenremoved from the drawer it will move slightly outward to normalposition, thus causing the rod 149 to rock back to normal position torestore the spring pawl 159 and again engage the shoulder 147.

The rod 149 extends through to the right hand side of the machine whereit is sup ported by one of the arms 144 (Fig. The rod 149, as shown inthis figure, coacts with an arm 152 which is pivoted to the frame of themachine at 153. It is provided with a camming surface at 154, which isengaged by the rod 149 when the same rocks rearwardly and, therefore,causes the arm 152 to rock rearwardly. This arm is connected by a link155 with a lever 156 which is fixed to the shaft 76. The shaft 76carries the arms 75 which are located at opposite sides of the machineand carry the rod 74. This rod co-acts with the forks 73 of the arms 72which carry the key detents 67 (Fig. 2). Therefore, when the arm 152 isrocked rearwardly the rod 74 will be moved upwardly a slight distancecarrying all of the key detents upwardly and thereby locking the keysagainst movement. The rod 74 is again moved down to release the keys atthe completion of an operation of the machine when the roller 157 whichis carried by the rear wall of the cash drawer engages the drawer latch17 and thereby returns the drawer latch to its normal position, andthrough this rod in returning en gages an extension 158 of the arm 152,thereby returning the arm 152 to its initial position.

In printing the total of all items which have been accumulated by thetotalizer all that is necessary in operating the machine is to depressthe totalizing key 215 (Fig. 5), and then return the cash drawer to itshome position. The key 215 is fixed to the shaft 216, which shaftcarries a pair of arms 217 (Fig. 3), between which extends the rod 218.Upon the depression of the key 215, the rod 218 co-acts with theinclined surfaces 219 of the arms 1515 to force said arms downward, andcause the slides 150 of the trans action and clerks banks to movedownward, thereby releasing the cash drawer, in the manner abovedescribed. At the same time the rod 218 (Fig. 2) moves into the path ofthe rearward extensions 217 of the arms 55, which carry the detents 52and when in the path of these arms prevents the depression of any of theamount keys. The rod 218 also engages the shoulders 219 of all of thestops 61 and rocks the stops out of the paths of the shoulders 65 of thesegments 34. Therefore, all of the segments 34 will move downward uponthe opening of the cash drawer, each segment moving downward to anextent commensurate with the amount which has been accumulated by itsappropriate totalizing element. The total izer is retained in engagementwith the segmental rack 46 upon the depression of the key 215 during thedownward movement of said segments 34, in a manner fully shown anddescribed in the before mentioned copending applications. Upon thisforward movement of the segment gears 46, the totalizer pinions arerotated backwardly to their zero position, but as this backward rotationof the totalizer pinions is equal to the amount which the totalizerpinions had been rotated forwardly from their zero positions, the typecarriers will be set to bring the characters which represent the totalamount which has been accumulated by the totalizer to the printing line.Therefore, when the platen of the printer is operated, an impression ofthe total will be made. A complete description of the printing mechanismmay be found in the before mentioned patent applications. The shaft 216(Fig. 5) carries an arm 220 which is connected by a link 221 with an arm222 pivoted at 223. Upon the depression of the key 215, the arm 222co-acts with a pin 224 carried by the lever 152 to prevent the lever 152from moving rearwardly unless the key 215 is fully depressed. Fig. 5shows the key 215 in its normal position and the forward end of the arm222 is shown below the pin 224 and, therefore, does not prevent therearward rocking of the lever 152, upon ordinary operations of themachine. When the key 215 is fully depressed, the arm 222 will be abovethe pin 224, and thereby permits the lever 152 to rock rearwardly, butit is impossible to operate the machine with the key 215 only partlydepressed as then the surface 225 of the arm 222 will be directly in thepath of the pin 224 and will thereby hold the lever 152 in engagementwith the rod 149 and prevent the release of the cash drawer.

Auzogmphic device.-The autographic device is illustrated in Figs. 1 and6. A supply roll of autographic paper 165 is carried by the rod 166which extends from the frame 11. The paper 167 is led from the supplyroll over the writing table 168 and from there to the cylinder 169 towhich is rigidly secured a ratchet 170. This ratchet may be actuated tocause the feed of the paper either by hand or by devices which areoperated by the register itself. The hand feed consists merely of a pawl171 which is carried by an arm 172 pivoted upon the shaft 173 of thecylinder 169 and provided with a forwardly extending handle 174. Aspring 175 is interposed between the handle and a pin extending from theframe 11. The hand feed is operated by merely pressing the handle 174downwardly, thereby rotating the ratchet 170 a slight distance and uponthe release of the handle 174 it is returned to its initial position bythe spring 175.

The paper feeding device which is operated by the machine may be set sothat it will feed upon every operation of the machine or only uponcertain operations of the machine, as when special transactions such asreceived on account, charge or paid out are recorded. or not to feed onany operation of the machine. Another device is provided in connectionwith the autographic mechanism which must be operated before the machinecan be operated if the paper feeding device is set to feed upon theoperation of the machine. This is merely to call attention to theautographic mechanism whenever the paper feeding device is set tooperate.

Referring to the drawings (Fig. 6), the arm 24 which is pivoted at 25and oscillated upon each operation of the machine, has an upwardlyextending part which is provided with a roller 176 which extends betweenthe prongs of a forked lever 177. This lever is loosely pivoted at 178to the side frame 14 and extends upwardly from its pivot and at itsupper end is pivoted to a slide 179. This slide rests upon a roller 180which is carried by an arm 181, fixed to the shaft with a rod 183, whichextends across the upper edge of the type carrier 184 (Fig. 7), which iscontrolled by the bank of transaction keys. The rod 183 also extendsacross a notched arm 185 (Fig. 8), which is pivoted to the side frame at186, and at 187 is provided with a handle by means of which it may bemanually rocked from its pivot 186, so that any one of the three notches188, 189 and 190 may be brought in such position that the rod 183 willrest in the selected notch. These notches are arranged at differentdistances from the pivot 186 of the arm 185, the notch 188 being nearestthe pivot and the other two 189 and 190 being successively farther awayfrom the pivot. Therefore, by manipulation of this arm 185 the rod 183may be placed in three different positions and the roll 180 accordinglypositioned. If the lever 185 is rocked to bring the notch 190 intoengagement with the roll 183, the roller 180 will move to its highestposition rocking the slide 179 upwardly. With the rod 183 resting in thenotch 189, the slide 179 will be in the position shown in Fig. 6. Viththe rod 183 resting in the notch 188, the slide 179 will be in itslowest position. This slide 179 is provided with a slot 191 which isnotched at 192 and 193. A lever 194 which is pivoted at 195 carries aroller 196 which extends into the slot 191. If the roller 196 is ineither one of the notches 192 or 193, the reciprocation of the slide 179will cause the lever 194 to be rocked forwardly and returned upon theoperation of the machine. Below its pivot the lever 194 is connected toa link 197 which at its forward end is pivoted to an arm 198 which isrigidly mounted upon a sleeve 325 sur rounding the shaft 199. Thissleeve also carries an arm 200 which, by the link 201, is connected toan arm 202, which is pivoted on shaft 173, and carries a feed pawl 203.Therefore, when the lever 194 is rocked forwardly and returned the feedpawl 203 will engage the ratchet 170 and rotate the same a slightdistance, thereby causing the feed of the strip of autographic paper.Fig. 6 :-'l]0WS the autographic mechanism as it would appear when in itsnormal or home position. The roll 196 is in the extreme forward end ofthe slot 191 and the arm 24 is in its upper or home position. Therefore,in order to rock the slide 179 to bring the notches 192 or 193 intoengagement with the roller 196, the slide 179 must be rocked when theautographic mechanism is in its moved position, at which time the roller196 is opposite the notches 192 and 193. If the slide 179 is m suchposition that the roller 196 is centrally located between the notches192 and 193, then the operation of the machine will not cause the feedof the strip of autographic paper as the slide 179 will not engage theroller 196. In order to bring the slot to its central position the arm185 should be set to the position in which it is shown in Fig. 6, withthe rod 183 resting in the notch 189. If it is desired to cause theautogra hic feed to operate upon every operation of the machine, thenthe arm 185 is rocked to bring the notch 190 into engagement with therod 183 and as the notch 190 is farther away from the pivot 186 of thearm 185, the arm 182 will be rocked upwardly thereby causing the arm 181to lift the slide 179 so that the roll 196 will rest in the notch 193 ofthe slide. Then every time the machine is operated, the lever 194 willbe oscillated and therefore, the paper feeding device will be actuated.If it is desired to have the strip of autographic paper feed only oncertain special operations such as when received on account, charge, orpaid out transactions are recorded, the arm 185 is rocked to bring thenotch 188 into engagement with the rod 183, and as this notch is closestthe pivot 186 of the arm 185, the slide 179 will be permitted to dropdownwardly bringing the notch 192 into engagement with the roll 196.\Vith the roll 196 in the notch 192. the paper feeding device willordinarily be operated upon the operation of the machine, but the typesegment 184 for the bank of special keys is prot'ided with a surface2045 which co-acts with the rod 183 when it rests in the notch 188 andcams the rod 183 upwardly when the segment is moved to bring either theno sale, or cash characters to the printing line. This lifting of therod 183 causes the slide 179 to rise to its central position, the rod183 being lifted the same distance, as it would be lifted when the arm185 is rocked to bring the notch 189 into engagement with the rod 183.hen the Received on account, Charge, or Paid out key is depressed, oneof the cut away parts 2055 of the segment 184, will come opposite therod 183, and will thereby permit the rod to rest in the notch 188,allowing the slide 179 to lower so that the notch 192 may engage theroller 196.

The type segments are set when the operating mechanism of the machine isin its moved position, that is, the arm 24 will be in its lowestposition and the arms 12 in their forward positions. The feed of thestrip of autographic paper is accomplished on the return of theoperating mechanism of the machine when the slide 179 is movedrearwardly carrying with it the lever 194 provided with the roller 196is in either of the notches 192 or 193. The rearward rocking of thelever 194 causes the arm 202 which carries the feed pawl 203 to berocked forward. The autographic device is further provided with a devicewhich, upon the operation of the machine, attracts the attention of theoperator to the autographic device whencver the paper feeding mechanismof the strip of autographic paper is set to feed the paper. This deviceattracts the operators attention by preventing a complete operation ofthe machine until the device itself is manually operated. It comprises alatch lever 204 rigidly mounted on the shaft 199.

The lever 204 is provided at its lower end with a hook projection 208,which projection normally stands in a position to be engaged by a pin209 on the drawer arm 12 for the purpose of locking said arm in itsforward position, thus preventing a closing movement of the drawer tocomplete the operation of the machine. The lever 201 has an upwardlyextending arm 205 which cooperates with a bell crank release lever 206.Said lever 206 has mounted on its rearwardly extending arm 211, a pin212 which cooperates with the inclined edge 213 on the upper end oflatch lever 204, to rock said latch lever and shaft 199, thuswithdrawing the hook 208 from locking engagement with the pin 209. Anotch 214 is provided at the upper end of said inclined edge. This notchis for the purpose of engaging and holding the pin 212 and consequentlyholding said levers 201 and 206 in operated position. A spring 318 isinterposed between said levers for the purpose of restoring them tonormal position when released. The forward end of the paper feedinglever 179 is provided with a downwardly extending finger 315, which,when the lever 179 is in a position of no feed, lies in the path of apin 316, mounted on the upper end of a lever 317, which lever is rigidlymounted on shaft 199. Upon an operation of the machine in such conditionthe said finger will engage the pin 316 and rock the lever 317 andconsequently the shaft 199 and lever 204: to raise the hook 208 out ofthe path of the pin 209. The machine may then be freely operated withoutthe drawer arm being locked in its forward position. If, however, thelever 179 is in one or the other of its feeding positions, and the pin196 is riding in either of the notches 192 or 193, the finger 315 willthen be out of alinement with the pin 316 and the lever 317, shaft 199and lever 204: will not be rocked. The locking projection 208 willconsequently remain in position to engage the pin 209 and prevent theclosing of the drawer. It will then be necessary for the operator todepress the forward end 210 of lever 200, thus causing the pin 212 tocoact with the inclined edge 213 of the upper end of lever 201 and thusrock said lever to release the pin 209 and lever 206 will then be lockedin operated position, as above de scribed. The lever 204 will in thismanner be rocked to an extent sufficient to simply withdraw the hook 208from the pin 209, while the inclined edge 319 of a pawl 320, pivoted at321, on the rear end of said lever will still remain in the path of thepin 209. When the drawer is subsequently closed, the pin 209 will strikeagainst said pawl and cause a further rocking movement of the lever 201to an extent sufiicient to release the pin 212 from the notch 214 andthus permit the restoration of lever 206.

\Vhile the form of mechanism herein shown and described is admirablyadapted to fulfil the objects primarily stated, it is to be understoodthat it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form ofembodiment herein disclosed, for it is susceptible of embodiment invarious forms all coming within the scope of the claims which follow.

hat is claimed is;

1. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a mainoperating mechanism including a manually movable element, of means forholding said element against actuation, two latching arms normallypreventing release of said holding means, two banks of keys and detentplates operated respectively by the keys in said banks, and connectionsfrom said plates to actuate separately the two latching arms.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a mainoperating mechanism including a manually movable element, of meansincluding a bar for normally holding said element against movement, twopivoted latching arms normally preventing movement of said holding bar,two banks of keys, and detent plates operated by said banksrespectively, connections from said detent plates to said pivotedlatching arms, and a latching pawl mounted on one of said latching arms,and spring drawn to hold the corresponding detent plate in adjustedposition.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a mainoperating mechanism comprising a cash receptacle, of holding means forsaid receptacle including a pivoted frame having a cross bar, twopivoted latching arms normally preventing movement of said frame bar,two banks of keys and detent plates moved respectively by said keys,connections from said detent plates to release said latching arms, and aholding arm pivoted to one of said latching arms, spring drawn to engageunder said frame bar when the corresponding detent plate is actuated andthereby hold said detent plate in its adjusted position.

4. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a mainoperating mechanism including a manually movable-element, of means forholding said element against actuation, two latching arms normallypreventing release of said holding means, two banks of keys andconnections from said banks for separately releasing said latching arms,and a locking plate having connections to said main operating mechanismand actuated thereby to positively lock one of said banks of keys.

5. In a machine of the class described, the combination with anoperating mechanism and a pivoted plate having notches and connected tobe given invariable excursions by said operating mechanism, of a seriesof counters having driving elements, actuating pawls connected to saiddriving elements and having projecting pins, and keys con structed toengage said projecting pins and force them into the notches of saidpivoted plate.

6. In an accounting mechanism, the combination with registering andprinting mechanisms, of a series of transaction keys and a printingelement differentially controlled thereby, an autographic deviceincluding a normally inoperative feeding mechanism for a recordmaterial, and a manipulative device for establishing a cooperativerelation between said feeding mechanism and transaction printing elementwhereby said feeding mechanism will auto,- matically be renderedoperative only upon the transaction printingelement being positioned toprint certain transactions.

7. In a machine of the class described,

the combination with a main operating mechanism including a movableelement, of means for holding said element against actuation, twolatching arms normally preventing release of said holding means, twobanks of keys, detent plates operated re spectively by the keys in saidbanks, and connections from said plates to actuate separately the twolatching arms.

8. In an accounting mechanism, the combination with an operatingmechanism, of an autographic device including feeding mechanism andmeans for rendering said feeding mechanism operative or inoperative atwill on all or certain predetermined operations of the accountingmechanism, and a lock for the operating mechanism controlled by saidfeeding mechanism for preventing a complete operation of the accountingmechanism when said feeding mechanism is in operative condition.

9. In an accounting mechanism, the combination with an operatingmechanism, of an autographic device including feeding mechanism andmeans for rendering said feeding mechanism operative or inoperative atwill on all or certain predetermined op erations of the accountingmechanism, a lock for the operating mechanism controlled by said feedingmechanism for preventing a complete operation of the accountingmechanism when saidfeeding mechanism is in operative condition, and amanually operable device for releasing said lock.

10. In an accounting mechanism the combination with registering andprinting mechanism and an operating mechanism therefor, of a series oftransaction keys and a printing element differentially controlledthereby, an autographic device including a normally inoperative feedingmechanism for a record material, a manipulative device for establishinga cooperative relation between said feeding mechanism and transactionprinting element whereby said feeding mechanism will automatically berendered operative only upon the operation of certain of saidtransaction keys, and a manually releasable lock for the operatingmechanism controlled by said feeding mechanism for temporarilypreventing a complete operation of the accounting mechanism when saidfeeding mechanism is in operative condition.

11. In an accounting mechanism the combination with registering andprinting mechanism of a series of transaction keys and a printingelement differentially controlled thereby, an autographic deviceincluding a normally inoperative feeding mechanism for a recordmaterial, a manipulative device constructed by adjustments thereof torender said feeding mechanism operative at every operation of themachine or to establish a cooperative relation between said feedingmechanism and transac tion printing element whereby said feedingmechanism will automatically be rendered operative only upon theoperation of certain of said transaction keys and inoperative upon theoperation of others of said keys and a manually releasable lock for theoperating mechanism controlled by said feed mechanism for temporarilypreventing a complete operation of the accounting mechanism when saidfeeding mechanism is in operative condition.

12. In an accounting mechanism the com bination with an operatingmechanism of an autographic device including an adjustable feedingdevice for arecord material and means for manually rendering saidfeeding device operative or inoperative and a manually releasable lockfor the operating mechanism controlled by said feeding mechanism fortemporarily preventing a complete operation of the accounting mechanismwhen said feeding mechanism is in operative condition.

13. In an accounting mechanism the combination with an operatingmechanism of an autographic device including an adjustable feedingdevice for a record material and means for automatically rendering saidfeeding device operative or inoperative and a manually releasable lockfor the operating mechanism controlled by said feeding mechanism fortemporarily preventing a complete operation of the accounting mechanismwhen said feeding mechanism is in operative condition.

14. In an accounting mechanism the combination with an operatingmechanism, of an autographic device including an adjustable feedingdevice for a record material and means for manually and automaticallyrendering said feeding device operative or inoperative and a manuallyreleasable lock for the operating mechanism controlled by said feedingmechanism for temporarily preventing a complete operation of theaccounting mechanism when said feeding mechanism is in operativecondition.

15. In an accounting mechanism the combination with an operatingmechanism including a reciprocating lever carrying a pin, of anautographie device including a feeding device for a record material, apivoted locking lever having a notch and controlled by said feedingdevice and having a hook adapted to engage the pin mounted on saidreciprocating lever to lock said lever in partially operated position, amanually operable release lever adapted to rock said locking lever todisengage its hook from the pin on the reciprocating lever, a pin on therelease lever adapted to be engaged by the notch in said locking leverto lock said re lease lever in operated position and said locking leverin disengaged position, and a pawl mounted on said locking leveradjacent its locking hook and adapted to be struck by the pin on thereciprocating lever in its return movement to give said locking lever anadditional rocking movement to disengage its notch from the pin on thereleasing lever to permit a restoration to normal position of both ofsaid levers.

16. In an accounting mechanism the combination with an operatingmechanism including a reciprocating lever carrying a pin, of anautographic device including an adjustable feeding device for a recordmaterial and means for manually and automatically rendering said feedingdevice operative or inoperative, a pivoted locking lever having a hookadapted to engage the pin on said reciprocating lever to lock said leverin partially operated position, a second lever rigidly connected to saidlocking lever and aprojection on the feeding device in alinement toengage said second lever when said feeding device is in inoperativecondition to rock said locking lever to withdraw its hook from lockingposition but out of alinement to engage said second lever when saidfeeding device is in operative condition to permit the locking hook toremain in locking position.

17 In an accounting mechanism, the combination with an operatingmechanism, of

an autographic device including feeding mechanism and means forrendering said feeding mechanism operative or inoperative at will on allor certain predetermined operations of the accounting mechanism, a lockfor the operating mechanism controlled by said feeding mechanism forpreventing a complete operation of the accounting mechanism when saidfeeding mechanism is in operative condition and permitting a completeoperation of the accounting mecha* nism when said feeding mechanism isin inoperatix e condition.

18. In an accounting mechanism, the combination with an operatingmechanism, of an autographic device including feeding mechanism andmeans for rendering said feeding mechanism operative or inoperative atwill on all or certain predetermined operations of the accountingmechanism, a lock for the operating mechanism controlled by said feedingmechanism for preventing a complete operation of the accountingmechanism when said feeding mechanism is in operative condition, andpermitting a com plete operation of the accounting mechanism when saidfeeding mechanism is in inoperative condition, and a manually operabledevice for releasing said lock.

19. In a machine of the class described,

the combination with an invariably movableoperating mechanism, of meansfor feeding a record strip, a manipulative device controlling connectionand disconnection of the feeding means and the operating mechanism, andan element differentially adjusted under the control of the operatingmechanism for preventing the connection of the operating mechanism andthe feeding means regardless of the position of the manipulative device.

20. In an accounting mechanism, the combination with an operatingmechanism. of an autographic device including feeding mechanism, meansfor rendering said feeding mechanism operative or inoperative at will onall or certain predetermined operations of the accounting mechanism, andmeans for attracting the attention of the operator to the record stripbefore the strip is fed, when the feed mechanism is in operativecondition.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES F. KETTERING. WILLIAM A. OHRYST.

\Vitnesses IV. P. ANDERSON, F. E. HAMILTON.

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